Climate Justice

The mission of LA Forward’s Climate Justice Team is to fight for policies that support a sustainable, equitable, and just climate future for all Angelenos. 

We act as a hub to welcome and connect Angelenos who want to do something about climate change with direct actions that work to help protect our climate and promote environmental justice, particularly at the local level. We work to foster and strengthen relationships with partner organizations fighting for climate justice locally.

We focus on building solidarity with historically marginalized low-income communities of color on the frontline of the climate crises and emphasize the intersections of climate with housing, transportation, racial, and economic justice. We seek to ensure climate solutions don’t burden working class communities and communities of color, including the loss of good jobs, over-concentration of polluting industries, and the cost of energy and efficiency upgrades.


Our Principles:

  • End fossil fuel extraction including a complete phase out oil and gas drilling in Los Angeles and cleaning up drilling sites and brownfields.

  • Achieve a Renewable Energy future, including support for the LA 100 study, which outlines several paths to 100% renewable energy in Los Angeles.

  • Work for a Just Transition and Green New Deal for Los Angeles and the United States.

  • Establish a Public Bank as a means to stop subsidizing polluting industries and finance a clean energy infrastructure.

  • Create a Circular Economy where no resources are wasted as we seek to fight climate change, biodiversity loss, and pollution.

  • Support Sustainable Transportation systems, including multimodal infrastructure that enables people to quickly get around without the need for single-occupancy vehicles -- walk/bike infrastructure; clean, free and accessible public transit; and intercity high-speed rail as well as bolstering the the use of zero-emission vehicles.

  • Encourage-climate friendly housing and land-use patterns by preventing displacement of working-class people who live near transit/jobs and encouraging the development of housing, especially permanently affordable housing near transit/jobs, and working against sprawl.

Check out the new LA Climate Action Guide! It’s a guide for how to fight climate change & its consequences in Southern California by LA Forward Institute.

Past Event Recordings

Stopping Pollution at the Port

LA City Council's Power to Fight Climate Change

Watch A Recording Of The 2021 Kickoff Of Our Climate Justice Team

Watch a recording of the Energy 101 Teach-in

We’ve been closely following lessons from the pandemic on how to fight climate change effectively as well as important opportunities for ensuring that Covid recovery takes climate justice into account, please see the below links:

 

A majority of our budget comes from our members’ monthly donations. In 2024, our goal is to raise 70% of our budget from dues-paying members. That will enable us to be 100% accountable to people like you. Your gift allows us to respond rapidly to emerging issues, to take on powerful interests, and spend as little time possible on fundraising so we can focus on the crucial work that needs to get done every day.